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ID
https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/N.EadwigBasan.Coloph
Author
Eadwig Basan
Title
Colophon to the Hanover Gospels
Language
Latin
Place
Christ Church, Canterbury
Edited
unprinted? but illustrated in T.A.M. Bishop, English Caroline minuscule (1971), pl. xxii
Time
fl. c. 1020
Listed
not in ICL, WIC [check the Benedictines of Bouveret, Colophons]
Metre
hexameter ?
MSS
Hanover, Kestner Museum, W. M. XXIa, 36, f. 183v
Comments
Eadwig has adapted a metrical colophon without apparently recognizing its metrical form. The first line is a hexameter; the second line is OK until Eaduuius; the third line is incomplete; the fourth line could be emended to form a pentameter: ‘Vale, serue Dei et memor esto mei.’ OR a scribe has miscopied a metrical colophon from an exemplar, i.e. Eadwig is not the scribe of these MSS!! ? Librum istum monachus scripsit cognomine Basan
Bibliography
  • T.A. Heslop, ‘The production of de luxe manuscripts and the patronage of King Cnut and Queen Emma,’ ASE 19 (1990): 151-95, at 175-8; Richard Gameson, ODNB, Eadwig Basan
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N.EadwigBasan.Coloph

N.EadwigBasan.Coloph 1. Pro scriptore precem ne tempnas fundere, pater: Pro scriptore precem ne tempnas fundere, pater:
N.EadwigBasan.Coloph 2. Librum istum monachus scripsit Eaduuius cognomento Basan Librum istum monachus scripsit Eaduuius cognomento Basan
N.EadwigBasan.Coloph 3. sit illi longa salus sit illi longa salus
N.EadwigBasan.Coloph 4. Vale seruus Dei N et memor esto mei. Vale seruus Dei N et memor esto mei.
N.EadwigBasan.Coloph 5. [‘Do not disdain, Father, to pour forth a prayer for the scribe. The monk Eadwig, with the surname Basan, wrote this book. May long-lasting health be his. Farewell servant of God, n[ame], and be mindful of me’ Gameson, ODNB] [‘Do not disdain, Father, to pour forth a prayer for the scribe. The monk Eaduuig, uuith the surname Basan, uurote this book. May long-lasting health be his. Fareuuell seruant of God, n[ame], and be mindful of me’ Gameson, ODNB]